Journal of Integrated Care: Volume 29 Issue 2

Editorial

Axel Kaehne

The development of a tool to monitor integrated care for childhood overweight and obesity in the Netherlands

Leandra Koetsier, Monique Jacobs, Jutka Halberstadt, Marian Sijben, Nick Zonneveld, Mirella Minkman

The development of a national model has led municipalities in the Netherlands to implement integrated care for childhood overweight and obesity. To monitor how this approach is…

Building an initial realist theory of partnering across National Health Service providers

Justin Avery Aunger, Ross Millar, Joanne Greenhalgh, Russell Mannion, Anne Marie Rafferty, Hugh McLeod

The National Health Service (NHS) is facing unprecedented financial strain. These significant economic pressures have coincided with concerns regarding the quality and safety of…

Implementing integrated care pilot projects in hospital settings – an exploration of disruptive practices

Elizabeth Mansfield, Jane Sandercock, Penny Dowedoff, Sara Martel, Michelle Marcinow, Richard Shulman, Sheryl Parks, Mary-Lynn Peters, Judith Versloot, Jason Kerr, Ian Zenlea

In Canada, integrated care pilot projects are often implemented as a local reform strategy to improve the quality of patient care and system efficiencies. In the qualitative study…

Does training in co-production lead to any real change in practice? Reflections from practitioners in Northern Ireland

Sonia Patton, Anne McGlade, Joe Elliott

This paper explores the perceptions of a small cohort of participants in the “Involving People” programme. This 35-week course recruited staff from across statutory, voluntary and…

Health workforce planning under conditions of uncertainty: identifying supportive integrated care policies using scenario analysis

Gareth H. Rees, Peter Crampton, Robin Gauld, Stephen MacDonell

Integrated care presents health workforce planners with significant uncertainty. This results from: (1) these workforces are likely in the future to be different from the present…

Does integrated health and care in the community deliver its vision? A workforce perspective

Linda Marie Wain

The purpose of this paper is to explore and capture workforce perceptions, experiences and insights of the phenomena of integrated care (IC) in a community health and care NHS…

Service integration for improved diabetic and dental care: exploring an effective model for optimising health outcomes

Isaac S. Obeng, Ikedinachi K. Ogamba

This study identifies and synthesizes existing literature on the integration of diabetic and dental services and explores a service integration model for optimising diabetic…

Appropriate polypharmacy: a barometer for integrated care

Alpana Mair, Eleftheria Antoniadou, Anne Hendry, Branko Gabrovec

Polypharmacy, the concurrent use of multiple medicines by one individual, is a common and growing challenge driven by an ageing population and the growing number of people living…

Healthcare professionals at the Gazan public hospitals: are they collaborative?

Iyad Ibrahim Shaqura, Radwan Baroud, Ali Akbari Sari

This study aimed to assess interprofessional collaboration among healthcare professionals at governmental hospitals in the Gaza Strip.